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HP gives a glimpse into the ecosystem: Phones, Tablets, Netbooks

By: , 1/17/2011 9:41 am | 24 comments

Wanna know what HP is gonna announce on the 9th? Yeah us too, but we may have gotten a little glimpse through one of the training videos that HP released to some of its retail partners.

Towards the end of the video the female talking head gets the idea that webOS is really cool but would be even cooler if her PC could do all the webOS stuff too.

Mr. Talking Head says its coming and we get the nice little slide above…

Think this will be a big talking point on February 9th? Let’s see…

Big, small, and beyond…that is the slogan right?

  • Big = tablet, we all know that.
  • Small = pixi-ish device…highly speculative, but it fits with the rumors we have been hearing.
  • Beyond = ecosystem? It is highly possible that the beyond is a breadcrumb to the next phase of their rollout. Hinting, and perhaps showing a demo of a netbook running webOS or somehow interacting with webOS would definitely fit the bill.

Netbooks aren’t the hotness right now, but hooking them into the ecosystem, I believe, is the first step to getting webOS hooked into the gajillions of HP laptops that are sold every year. Could be cool. What do you think?

Source: HP webOS Central

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  • DigitalYout

    what ever the plans are, I just hope I get my super Epic style smartphone running webOS. And I hope they make webOS very, very successful in the mobile space.

    • Jamesmb47

      A “Super Epic WebOS phone” is exactly what is needed to set the WebOS world on fire! Marry great hardware with the best OS ever and market the hell out of it! I WANT ONE!

      • DigitalYout

        +1 on that, Keep hope alive. LMAO

  • Anonymous

    If I can hook into my older HP laptop, it will give it a new lease on life or at least extend beyond serving as a mobile Netflix viewing machine.

  • Anonymous

    If I can hook into my older HP laptop, it will give it a new lease on life or at least extend beyond serving as a mobile Netflix viewing machine.

  • http://www.hpalmnews.com HPalm News

    Didn’t they say in the video that everything connected and running on netbooks was “the big idea”. That line in the video really confused me.

    • http://www.hpalmnews.com HPalm News

      “Why can’t I do all that stuff on my PC?”
      Response: “maybe you will. THAT’s the big idea” (emphasis mine, but the narator does really accentuate the word that’s)

      http://www.hpweboscentral.com/course.do?201011_webos101 the quote is at 4:33

      This video kind of threw me for a loop. I was really thinking that the big idea was slates, the small idea was phones and the beyond stuff was about connected devices and printers and the future.

      I’ve now switched my idea situation to – Big is netbooks, Small is phones, Beyond is still printers and the ecosystem, and the PalmPad isn’t part of the big, small, beyond thing because everyone knows it is coming. I really doubt that, but I suppose it is possible. That is the positive hope. The pessimistic side of me is afraid that the Big stuff is a webOS skin on top of PC’s and that the PalmPad is just a skinned HP slate and the netbooks are just windows7 netbooks with a stupid webOS like skin on top. I could see HP really messing that up and mixing the two in a really really bad way. Then the small would be pure webOS phones and music players and the beyond is the connection between them all.

      I’m not normally pessimistic about Palm so hopefully I’m wrong and the first scenario is true

      • http://twitter.com/lisandrodiazu Lisandro Diaz U

        Where can I see the video?

  • @elcabedlv

    Please don’t forget the printers!!! they put webOS there too!!! awesome!!!

    • http://www.hpalmnews.com HPalm News

      so far they’re not talking much about printers. Rubi said that isn’t coming until next year. This year seems to be focusing on netbooks, tablets, and phones and the connection between them all. They’ll surely takl about the ePrint stuff they have, but I dont’ think it will go beyond that.

      • Anonymous

        As long as they implement wireless printing in old and new webOS devices as good as the iPhone/iPad have for their current ePrint printers, I’d be happy.

  • Ryan St. Andrie

    I want a webOS toilet. Just sayin’

    • Makatram

      Swipe to flush

      • George

        Swipe to wipe

    • Joseph

      Personally, I can multifunction in that department without webOS help, thank you. But previous posts have “legitimately promoted” the webOS lawnmower, “available in coming months (before summer season… some year…. or other!)” It has a number of conceivable advantages. And Ryan, if you need, HP Palm is more than willing to combine ALL these ideas, into a mobile grass cutting throne. Driver’s licence IS required though. And agree that back swipe should continue to precede flush, unless it’s a really hot day, or you are just a tad too perky.

  • 911Medic

    Anyone noticed in the printer video that the woman sendind the photo is using a pre to take the photo an when it becomes animated it’s a different kinda phone not a pre looks like an oversized htc hero

  • http://www.webosroundup.com/ David

    I would be very surprised if the “Big” thing was the ecosystem considering they have already announced that a tablet is coming on 2/9…

    • Joseph

      If it is “Big Screen devices” it may eventually pull webOS in a sharp way toward that form factor, unless cross-platform usabilty is properly borne in mind.

  • Matt

    So what’s gonna happen if on the 9th everyone gets a huge dissappointment?

  • Matt

    So what’s gonna happen if on the 9th everyone gets a huge dissappointment?

    • http://www.michaeldcarney.com/ Michael D Carney

      Hahaha then we all buy Android phones and push for better UI

      • Abraham Arango

        And hope for the love of users we get updated to new versions of it. But most likely we wouldn’t so screw that fragmented crap.

  • RussK

    By “big” I hope they do mean tablet, and by “small” I also hope they mean a small, pixi style phone. I frown deeply upon all of those I see using massively large smartphones. My opionion all along is that the tablet will be a replacement for these large phones–people use the large screens for data, not voice, so a tablet with cell phone service is not necessary. Once tablets take off, the end of the large smart phones will be at hand.

    • John K.

      I disagree with large smartphone will end. For me the perfect device is a 7-10″ tablet/phone. Why pay $100 for the phone with a 2 yr contract and somewhere in the $400-$600 range for a tablet? Wouldn’t it make more sense to combine the 2 into 1 4G or 5G device with 1 contract. Maybe not for HPalm but it does for the consumer and I have big pockets.